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It is Wednesday, March 25th, and a Utah mom has been charged with kidnapping.

Who'd she take?

An actual kid, according to police.

Why?

Because she wanted that kid to apologize to her kid.

With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. This is a case robes, at least according to police, where the mom took the bullying of her child into her own hands.

Despite what the headlines say, a lot of parents are going to be able to relate in some way form or fashion to this story.

Yeah, so at first it's shocking, and you start to hear what police are alleging, and you think,

oh, my goodness, how could this mom do that?

And then you hear her side of things from her attorney,

and then you start to imagine as a parent what you would do. And many people listening

might actually have experienced this if your child is being bullied and you don't feel like

anyone is doing anything about it. And on top of it, let's say your child has disabilities,

because that is a part of this case. All right. So this case, we should say the charges only came

this week for an incident that took place September of last year. But this is a 40-year-old woman.

Shannon, how do you say your last name? Tofuga, I believe.

Shannon Tefuga. Shannon Tefuga, who police have arrested and charged with kidnapping. In one case of child abuse, I believe. These are both felonies, child kidnapping and aggravated child abuse.

All right. And this is all based on an incident, quite frankly, that is wild to hear about Rose, but she took

the kid, according to police, so she could force him to apologize to her kid. But the way this

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